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A Unicorn's Tale: Examining The Experiences Of Black Women In Engineering Industry, Monique S. Ross
A Unicorn's Tale: Examining The Experiences Of Black Women In Engineering Industry, Monique S. Ross
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Black women have recently been identified as the most educated demographic in the United States, and yet they are grossly underrepresented in engineering. They comprise 6.4 % of the U.S. population and only 0.72 % of engineering industry. Meanwhile, engineers have been identified as the key to the United States’ ability to maintain its prominence and leadership in a competitive global economy due to their contribution to maintaining and improving our infrastructures and standard of living. This significance to society has spawned national initiatives geared towards broadening participation in engineering. This research study was designed to explore the experiences of …
Understanding The Formation Of American Mental Health Policy Preferences, 1952-1981, Andrew D. Tuholski
Understanding The Formation Of American Mental Health Policy Preferences, 1952-1981, Andrew D. Tuholski
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In the United States, the emergence of an outpatient-centered, drug-based model of mental health care was physically feasible from the 1950s onward, with the introduction of thorazine and other first-generation antipsychotics. However, it was not until 1981, with President Reagan’s veto of the Mental Health Systems Act, that American mental health policy tipped over definitively into the outpatient-centered, drug-based model. In this quantitative study of the formation of policy preference, the delay between the feasibility of the outpatient-centered, drug-based model and its adoption was explored through five research questions answered through corpus analysis and time series statistics: How do shifts …
Seeking Interdependence: Commitment Desirability And The Initiation And Maintenance Of Close Relationships, Yu-Yang Kenneth Tan
Seeking Interdependence: Commitment Desirability And The Initiation And Maintenance Of Close Relationships, Yu-Yang Kenneth Tan
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People vary in the extent to which they believe that a committed relationship is desirable for them. The current research offers and examines the concept of commitment desirability, defined as the subjective desire to be involved in a committed romantic relationship. In six studies, the present research developed and tested a measure of commitment desirability and explored how it influences relationship initiation among those not currently involved in a relationship, and maintenance and dissolution decisions among those who are involved in a relationship. Study 1 and 2a developed and validated a reliable measure of commitment desirability. Study 2b examined the …
Computer Vision-Based Structural Assessment Exploiting Large Volumes Of Images, Chul Min Yeum
Computer Vision-Based Structural Assessment Exploiting Large Volumes Of Images, Chul Min Yeum
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Visual assessment is a process to understand the state of a structure based on evaluations originating from visual information. Recent advances in computer vision to explore new sensors, sensing platforms and high-performance computing have shed light on the potential for vision-based visual assessment in civil engineering structures. The use of low-cost, high-resolution visual sensors in conjunction with mobile and aerial platforms can overcome spatial and temporal limitations typically associated with other forms of sensing in civil structures. Also, GPU-accelerated and parallel computing offer unprecedented speed and performance, accelerating processing the collected visual data. However, despite the enormous endeavor in past …
Sport-Specific Risk And Protective Factors For Low Back Pain In Olympic Class Sailors: An Epidemiologic Analytic Cohort Study, Shawn E. Hunt
Sport-Specific Risk And Protective Factors For Low Back Pain In Olympic Class Sailors: An Epidemiologic Analytic Cohort Study, Shawn E. Hunt
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This dissertation determined the effect of known and theoretical risk factors for LBP in the Olympic class sailors utilizing a cohort design. A secondary goal was to determine if any factors related to sailors or sailing would provide a protective effect, lowering the risk of LBP. Sailors exposed to hiking (a sailing-specific activity) and non-hiking sailing classes were analyzed for the effect of hiking activity as a risk factor for LBP. Hiking exposure increases risk of LBP. Exposure to more than two hours of unloading the sailors’ boats and equipment prior to a regatta was a second unique risk factor …
Multi-Level Predictors Of Obesity And Diet In Multi-Ethnic Populations, Tali Elfassy
Multi-Level Predictors Of Obesity And Diet In Multi-Ethnic Populations, Tali Elfassy
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The obesity epidemic in the United States is a major public health issue. Poor socio-economic conditions such as poverty or living under financial stress may adversely influence health outcomes such as obesity, and often disproportionately impact ethnic minority populations. Further, individuals living in poverty are often exposed to environments that promote unhealthy diet and obesity. Such obesogenic environments are characterized by increased exposure to foods high in sodium and low in potassium which may also be independently associated with obesity. Yet these associations have not been adequately explored, especially among ethnic minority populations. The current dissertation seeks to explore: 1) …
A Critical Investigation Of Florida's Nclb Waiver And School Leader Sensemaking, Stacey Mercedes Kesten
A Critical Investigation Of Florida's Nclb Waiver And School Leader Sensemaking, Stacey Mercedes Kesten
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This study used a combination of descriptive statistics and qualitative methods to investigate Florida’s NCLB waiver with respect to its school accountability grading system as it was applied to elementary, middle, and K-8 schools in a large, urban school district. Using publicly accessible school accountability data for the 2013-2014 academic year, the quantitative component of this study examined the extent to which Florida’s school grading system hides or highlights reading performance disparities across student subgroups. Quantitative results indicate that the exclusion of disaggregated data in accountability rating determinations functions to systematically mask critical disparities in reading proficiency between student subgroups, …
Community College Students’ Perspectives On Student-Faculty Relationships And The Development Of Competence And Purpose, Michaela M. Tomova
Community College Students’ Perspectives On Student-Faculty Relationships And The Development Of Competence And Purpose, Michaela M. Tomova
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This phenomenological study explored community college students’ perspectives on the impact of student-faculty interactions on their development of competence and of purpose (Chickering & Reisser, 1993). The study was conducted at one mid-size campus of a large, predominantly Hispanic-serving community college in Southeastern Florida, where most students are first generation college students. A total of eight student volunteers engaged in one-on-one interviews designed to understand how community college students experienced the influence and effects of student-faculty relationships on the development of (1) their competence and (2) their purpose. Through a combination of coding methods, 13 meaningful categories describing the phenomenon …
A Multilevel Exploration Of The Role Of Student Health Centers In Addressing Campus Sexual Violence, Valerie A. Halstead
A Multilevel Exploration Of The Role Of Student Health Centers In Addressing Campus Sexual Violence, Valerie A. Halstead
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The prevalence of sexual violence (SV) within the college population is alarmingly high. Experiences of SV may lead to numerous negative academic, physical, and psychological consequences. Recent calls to action emphasize the importance that universities address this serious public health concern. The overall purpose of this dissertation is to explore the role of student health centers (SHCs) in addressing campus SV. This dissertation has three main aims: (1) to examine current research literature on SV in the college undergraduate student population with a specific focus on student disclosure and campus resources and services, (2) to describe SV practices of SHCs …
The Effect Of A Music-Movement Intervention On Arousal And Cognitive Flexibility In Older Adults With And Without Mild Neurocognitive Disorder, Carolyn Dana Dachinger
The Effect Of A Music-Movement Intervention On Arousal And Cognitive Flexibility In Older Adults With And Without Mild Neurocognitive Disorder, Carolyn Dana Dachinger
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a music-movement intervention (MMI) on cognitive flexibility and arousal in older adults with typical cognitive aging (TCA) or with symptoms of mild neurocognitive disorder (MND). This study also examined the relationships among participants’ demographics, including age, exercise frequency, and years of music participation, and the dependent variables of cognitive flexibility, perceived arousal, physiological arousal, and perceived exertion. Previous research and current theory suggests that multimodal interventions combining simultaneous physical activity and cognitive training may be an effective avenue for enhancing older adults’ cognition. Moreover, theory suggests that participation in …
Modernizing Our Methods: Incorporating Technology In Undergraduate Applied Violin Lessons, Jaya Kristina Varma
Modernizing Our Methods: Incorporating Technology In Undergraduate Applied Violin Lessons, Jaya Kristina Varma
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Technology has become a part of education in many areas. However, there is no current model for incorporating technology into applied violin lessons at the undergraduate level. This project provides background research in the areas of learning with technology, designing technologically-integrated courses, and currently available resources and tools for music studies. As a result of the research, a course map for a technologically-integrated course in violin has been developed. Recommendations for further study are included.
The Influences Of Eastern And Western Music In Chen Yi's "Percussion Concerto", Hsien-Fang Hsieh
The Influences Of Eastern And Western Music In Chen Yi's "Percussion Concerto", Hsien-Fang Hsieh
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Chen Yi is a leading female contemporary composer who has won many honors and awards worldwide, and has cooperated with major symphonies and musicians. The Percussion Concerto was commissioned by Evelyn Glennie and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 1988. The purpose of this essay is to provide a theoretical and aesthetic analysis, and the influences of Eastern and Western music in Chen Yi’s Percussion Concerto. This essay will examine Chen Yi’s musical integration of her educational and living experience in her composition. Additionally, the author will discuss the cultural influences, structural and harmonic analysis, Chen Yi’s use of Chinese poetry, …
The Impact Of Socio-Ecological Risk Factor Clustering On Mental, Emotional, And Behavioral Problems In Hispanic Adolescents, Lila Asfour Cathcart
The Impact Of Socio-Ecological Risk Factor Clustering On Mental, Emotional, And Behavioral Problems In Hispanic Adolescents, Lila Asfour Cathcart
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Hispanic youth are often at greater risk for developing mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) problems, such as substance use, sexual risk behaviors, and internalizing and externalizing symptoms, compared to non-Hispanic white youth. Socio-ecological risk and protective factors, including family, school, peer, and acculturation factors, have been shown to be associated individually with a variety of MEB problems. This study examines the clustering of these risk and protective factors and evaluates whether there are specific subgroups of Hispanic adolescents, who are at greater risk for a variety of MEB problems. Data come from two randomized controlled trials, and were collected at …
Impact Of Dance Complexity On Computer-Based And Movement-Based Cognitive Performance, Sean Nicolle
Impact Of Dance Complexity On Computer-Based And Movement-Based Cognitive Performance, Sean Nicolle
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BACKGROUND: Exercise improves cognition, but the specific mechanisms underlying these changes are not clear. Two proposed mechanism are aerobic demand and cognitive demand inherent in varying degrees to specific exercise tasks. This study compared two kinds of dance that differed in instruction complexity and aerobic intensity, ballroom (BR) and aerobic dance (Aero). The primary aim of this study was to determine if the cognitive benefits of exercise are more responsive to the complexity or aerobic overload. METHODS: Fourteen subjects aged 40-80 were randomly assigned to 8 weeks of Aero or BR dance classes. Aero classes were designed to emphasize low …
Functional Mri In The Presence Of Repetitive, Sub-Concussive Impacts, Trey E. Shenk
Functional Mri In The Presence Of Repetitive, Sub-Concussive Impacts, Trey E. Shenk
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Recent research has raised understanding and awareness of the long-term risks associated with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). While much research has focused on the role of concussion (a single event exhibiting clear clinical symptoms), the role of repetitive sub-concussive impacts is not well understood. This study uses functional MRI measurements of high school football players to identify functional changes, even in the absence of clinical symptoms.
Family Functioning, Parenting Strategies, And Disordered Eating Among Hispanic Youth, Dina Ferranti
Family Functioning, Parenting Strategies, And Disordered Eating Among Hispanic Youth, Dina Ferranti
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Disordered eating (DE) is a major public health concern related to both clinical eating disorders and obesity. DE encompasses various subclinical, yet maladaptive eating behaviors that include dieting, binge eating, and/or extreme weight control behaviors (i.e. self-induced vomiting, laxatives). Hispanic youth appear to be especially vulnerable to DE in comparison to other ethnic groups. However, to date there has been little research focused on Hispanic youth and DE, particularly those in middle childhood (8-11 years). The purpose of this study was to test a theoretical model examining family level variables, parenting strategies for eating and physical activity (PEAS) and family …
Training Affective Flexibility: Effects Of An Affective-Control Training Task On Emotion Regulation, Ashley Marie Malooly
Training Affective Flexibility: Effects Of An Affective-Control Training Task On Emotion Regulation, Ashley Marie Malooly
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Studies have shown that cognitive reappraisal is an adaptive emotion regulation strategy. However, individuals differ in how effectively they use reappraisal to regulate negative emotions such as sadness. Cognitive processes, such as those involved in task-switching, inhibition, and attention, may influence how well an individual can utilize cognitive reappraisal. This study sought to investigate whether a cognitive process associated with reappraisal, affective flexibility (AF), could be trained and could improve an individual’s ability to effectively down-regulate sadness. Also examined were potential effects of AF training on symptoms of depression and anxiety, and transfer effects to emotional working memory. Healthy participants …
Identification And Analysis Of Quality Gaps For Online Service Retailers Using Multi Structural Equation Models For Different Demographic And Product Categories, Asem Majed Othman
Identification And Analysis Of Quality Gaps For Online Service Retailers Using Multi Structural Equation Models For Different Demographic And Product Categories, Asem Majed Othman
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There has been a steady growth in e-commerce in the United States, especially during the past seven years. Online Service Retailers (OSRs), as e-commerce retailers, continue to invest heavily in the enhancement of the services provided to their customers. The success of OSRs depends heavily on their ability to understand and mitigate any gaps in quality. This study was conducted in three phases. In Phase I, we developed a conceptual framework for OSRs, based on a review of pertinent literature on service quality studies for online retailers. The purpose of the conceptual framework was to understand and establish the relationship …
Antidepressant And Molecular Responses To Ketamine Linked To Its Inhibition Of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 (Gsk3), Steven F. Grieco
Antidepressant And Molecular Responses To Ketamine Linked To Its Inhibition Of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 (Gsk3), Steven F. Grieco
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Herein are described two novel outcomes, the up-regulation of 5HTR2C cluster miRNAs and IGF2, as a result of GSK3 inhibition by an antidepressant dose of ketamine that may contribute to the behavioral responses to ketamine.
Provider’S Perceptions Of Couples Hiv Counseling And Testing In South Florida: A Qualitative Study, Natalie Marie Leblanc
Provider’S Perceptions Of Couples Hiv Counseling And Testing In South Florida: A Qualitative Study, Natalie Marie Leblanc
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Couples HIV testing and counseling (CHTC) is a dyadic approach to HIV prevention which has proven to reduce transmission within couples, promote condom use and disclosure, and sustain linkages to care. Literature on providers’ perceptions about CHTC in the U.S. is lacking. This study aims to: 1) ascertain provider knowledge, attitudes and perception of CHTC, and 2) identify provider perceived challenges and facilitators of CHTC. Providers were also asked to describe current practices to engage partners to screen. A qualitative descriptive design was used to conduct in-depth, semi-structured interviews among healthcare (clinical and non-clinical) providers (N=22) in South Florida. These …
The Combined Effects Of Acute Exposure To Simulated Altitude And Moderate Intensity Aerobic Exercise On Measures Of Cognition, Laura Q. Jimenez
The Combined Effects Of Acute Exposure To Simulated Altitude And Moderate Intensity Aerobic Exercise On Measures Of Cognition, Laura Q. Jimenez
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The present study was conducted to examine the behavioral cognitive and neurophysiological effects of acute exposure to simulated moderate and high altitudes at rest and during exercise in an effort to delineate whether there is a level of simulated altitude beyond which cognition and neurophysiological function are impaired and whether exercise improves or worsens cognitive function during exposure to simulated altitude. Dependent variables included accuracy and reaction time on a number of behavioral cognitive tasks, and the amplitude and latency of their associated event-related potentials. Fourteen recreationally active college students (M=9, F=5) aged 18-35 participated in this study, which consisted …
Making Ourselves Intelligible - A Nondescriptivist Approach To Propositional Attitudes, Sarah Beth Lesson
Making Ourselves Intelligible - A Nondescriptivist Approach To Propositional Attitudes, Sarah Beth Lesson
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In this dissertation, I argue for a function-first account of propositional attitude discourse that challenges a predominant assumption in philosophy of mind, that propositional attitude terms aim to refer – whether to brain states, functional states, dispositions, or entities posited to explain and predict. Using empirical evidence to support theoretical argumentation, I develop the Intelligibility View of propositional attitude discourse that highlights the distinctively normative role that the attribution of such states plays in social interaction. Building off the Intelligibility View, I argue that some of the most entrenched problems in this domain, including the problem of mental causation, problem …
A Model For Emerging Infectious Disease/Disaster Preparedness Training For Nursing Students, Susana Barroso
A Model For Emerging Infectious Disease/Disaster Preparedness Training For Nursing Students, Susana Barroso
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Disasters can occur due to natural events or environmental accidents, or they can be purposeful and man-made. Regardless of how they occur, disasters place extraordinary stresses on society’s ability to deal with the catastrophic effects. Given the prevalence of disasters and infectious disease pandemics, there is an urgent need to improve education of healthcare providers. Because nurses comprise the largest percentage of healthcare providers and are early disaster responders, disaster preparedness is critical. Some studies have shown that an education gap exists between nursing school curricula and the expectations of nurses and nursing faculty with regard to disaster preparedness. While …
Moral Injury In Contemporary Ethics: The Application Of A Socratic Idea, Heleana Theixos
Moral Injury In Contemporary Ethics: The Application Of A Socratic Idea, Heleana Theixos
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This dissertation is an investigation of the Socratic moral claim that being a moral wrongdoer is worse for the wrongdoer than it is for the victim. Chapter One investigates this moral claim in the context of Plato’s Gorgias and the historical Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen. Chapter Two brings the ancient conception into contemporary ethics into a typology of what the ancient concept looks like in contemporary ethics. Chapter Three prepares for an investigation of a certain moral wrongdoer, the military interrogator/ torturer and wrongdoing, by first examining a standard torture hypothetical, the Ticking Time Bomb. All three chapters work together …
Organizational Climate And Psychological Ownership In An Advanced Practice Nursing Sample, Lori Schirle
Organizational Climate And Psychological Ownership In An Advanced Practice Nursing Sample, Lori Schirle
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The U.S. healthcare system has a cost-quality paradox with the highest costs and lowest healthcare quality of industrialized nations. APRNs have been posited as a solution to this value dilemma, but existing barriers to practice must be alleviated to make this a reality. Considerable progress has been made toward mitigating federal and state barriers, whereas organizational-level barriers may be intensifying. The Theory of Psychological Ownership defines how work environment psychologically impacts the worker. Work environments that foster high psychological ownership demonstrate improved work performance and outputs. Healthcare organizations such as hospitals restrict APRN activities leading to decreased effectiveness, which in …
Effects Of Telephone-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management Intervention On Fatigue Interference And Neuroimmune Function In Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Daniel Lee Hall
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The perceived impact of chronic fatigue on daily living (i.e., fatigue interference) is particularly relevant for patients diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME), a medically unexplained illness associated with neuroendocrine and immune abnormalities. Literature suggests that fatigue interference is higher among women with CFS/ME than with other women facing chronic fatigue concerns, such as cancer survivors. To date, these comparisons have been primarily qualitative, limiting the ability to statistically control for related factors such as fatigue severity. Furthermore, greater fatigue interference in CFS/ME may relate to a suppressed cortisol awakening response (CAR) and heightened levels of the pro-inflammatory cytokine …
The Time Of Liberation: Angela Davis's Prison Abolition And Giorgio Agamben's Coming Community, Amy M. Pommerening
The Time Of Liberation: Angela Davis's Prison Abolition And Giorgio Agamben's Coming Community, Amy M. Pommerening
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The project explores the ethical, social, and political subject of incarceration. I investigate Angela Davis’s multifaceted critique of the prison industrial complex – focusing primarily on the tenets of racism, classism, and capitalism – and take an interdisciplinary approach to advancing her call for prison abolition by way of Giorgio Agamben’s radical adjustments to traditional discourses about ontology in his work The Coming Community. Agamben’s rendering of ontology in terms of impotentiality and indifference, when put in dialogue with Davis, exposes latent and unexplored philosophic suggestions Davis is making – specifically regarding a non-normative interpretation of temporality and an operation …
Understanding The Mechanism For Response Selection In Compatibility Tasks: Referential Coding Contrasted With Biological Properties Of The Hands, Nicole M. Murchison
Understanding The Mechanism For Response Selection In Compatibility Tasks: Referential Coding Contrasted With Biological Properties Of The Hands, Nicole M. Murchison
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Several researchers have hypothesized that the hands have unique effects on visual attentional resources and performance in response-selection tasks. This hand-specific processing hypothesis – that biological properties of the hands/palms uniquely affect visual attention and response selection – can be compared to a referential object coding hypothesis – that objects are coded in relation to other salient objects – favored in explanations of many compatibility effects. To test implications of these accounts, and specific effects that the hands (or general referential objects) have on attentional prioritization, I had participants perform three compatibility tasks using the hands or wooden blocks as …
Promoting Teaming Metacognition, Lee Kemp Rynearson
Promoting Teaming Metacognition, Lee Kemp Rynearson
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Improving students’ capacity to effectively perform teaming skills is a crucial outcome for engineering education, and has been the subject of considerable prior and ongoing research. Based upon review of research on teaming, it was hypothesized that greater awareness of appropriate opportunities to use teaming skills in authentic contexts would lead to greater teaming skills employment over time. Further, it was hypothesized that greater psychological safety in student teams would lead to more students choosing to employ appropriate teaming skills over time. An intervention to achieve such increases could therefore be expected to promote student teaming skills performance improvement. Seeking …
Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Study Of Funeral Directors In Indiana, Aubrey Thamann
Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Study Of Funeral Directors In Indiana, Aubrey Thamann
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This work is an ethnographic study of funeral directors in Indiana, focusing on the social role they play. Funeral directors, through performances as director and actor, with their living tableaux and focus on the life of the deceased individual, rather than his or her death, offer us the illusion of a modern American ideal—a society with no death. In the face of a great loss, we are reminded how much we depend upon others, which runs contrary to the traditional American concept of the individual. Individualism is so important to us that our funerary ritual, in place for the living, …